Biography: adventurers and explorers

Valerie Bertinelli, then: bubbly sitcom star and America's Sweetheart turned tabloid headline and rock star wife.

WINNER OF THE 2023 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a warrior.

Beloved stoner comedian TOMMY CHONG is now older, wiser, and officially an EX-CON.

A major international debut novel from a storyteller who couples a timelessly beguiling style to an energetically modern worldscape.

ENTERTAINMENT SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024What Goes on Tour, Stays on Tour.

A cautionary tale about the life of former kingpin Azie Faison, who has become the fabric of street legend Faison was a ninth grade dropout who earned more than $100,000 a week selling cocaine in Harlem, New York, during the peak of America's "e;War on Drugs"e; between 1983 and 1990.

Barton Swaim was struggling to find an academic jobhed recently received a PhD in Englishwhen he sent his resume to Mark Sanford, the conservative and controversial governor of South Carolina.

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate is a vivid memoir of an American boy growing up in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict, three major wars and three decades of political upheavals in the Middle East.

The brand-new adventure from the beloved author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.

"e;I wonder if Judy Blume really knows how many girls' lives she affected.

Guru Dutt's filmography has some names which have long been considered as some of the best films to have ever been made in India.

'Slowly Down the Ganges' is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' and 'Love and War in the Apennines'.

The stunning debut of a talented young travel writer.

Accompanied by an eight-part series, this is the story of Adam Nicolson's adventure in a small boat around the western coast of the British Isles.

A vivid description of one of the most ambitious scientific projects undertaken in the 19th century, and the men who undertook the measurement of the Himalayas and the mapping of the Indian subcontinent: William Lambton and George Everest.

'The Swimmer' is a gripping, captivating novel about love, loss and what home really means.

After her husband died of cancer, 57-year-old Rosie set off to run around the world, raising money in memory of the man she loved.

The biography of one of Britain's greatest explorers by a brilliant young writer.

Jean Mermoz nació en Aisne el 9 de diciembre de 1901 y desapareció en 1936 a bordo del hidroavión Croix-du-Sud a lo largo de las costas de Dakar.

Previously published as My Uncle Charlie.

In her third novel, acclaimed author of 'In Search of Adam' and 'Black Boxes' Caroline Smailes draws upon her own family history for a remarkable and unforgettable story of loss and redemption.

THE BOOK CHINA DOESNT WANT YOU TO READ CNN READS LIKE A THRILLER FINANCIAL TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder'sRed Noticecomes aunique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the zenith of power and money in 21stcentury China and whose wife was disappeared - and then mysteriously reappeared four years later on the eve of Red Roulette's publication and global media coverage about it.

Ingrid Bergman was one of the biggest and most glamorous stars in Hollywood.

From first-day nerves to first-year grades, from bizarre job interviews to bar exam insanity, Ivy Briefs pulls back the curtain on the marbled halls of law school, revealing the absurdity often bubbling beneath the surface.

In April 2008, the world watched in horror as the news of Josef Fritzl made worldwide headlines.

The number one Sunday Times bestseller Walking saved his life.

Elizabeth Taylor's own story was more dramatic than any part she ever played on the screen.

Extraordinary but true stories from 200 years of cycling history.

No matter how bad things are, Molloy tells those afflicted by neglect, there is always hope.

The story behind Telemundo's Jenni Rivera: Mariposa del Barrio series, now streaming.

A selection of Benjamin Franklins writings, with an introduction and commentary by renowned author Walter Isaacson.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000.

A New York Times bestseller!

Ein Buch mit sehr hohen Höhen und sehr tiefen Tiefen.

Enormously readable.

THE ONLY TRUE STORY BEHIND THE CREATOR OF MARY POPPINS The remarkable life of P.

A finely wrought memoir of mental health, Detour takes a genre explored by Susanna Kaysen and Kay Redfield Jamison and propels it in a revelatory and rebellious new direction.

As Charlotte Chandler did so well in her previous biographies, she will again draw on the recorded words of Joan Crawford and those who knew her well to paint a rich portrait of the woman and the star.

A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work.

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* The No-Holds-Barred Truth About Life Inside the Gotti DynastyTold by Their Most Famous DaughterVictoria Gotti never intended to reveal the inside story of the Gotti householdthe day-to-day life of a family that has sparked scandalous rumors and sensational headlines for decades.

Even as a young girl, growing up in the Bronx, Mary Higgins Clark knew she wanted to be a writer.

And Kinky Said Unto the People: Why the Hell Not?

Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended in the worst single-season death toll in the peak's history.

The International Bestseller 'A love story to the mountains in the mist, the pulsating northern lights and the red deer at dawn.

Of Human Bondage, Jezebel, All About Eve, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING STEVE CARELL AND BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATED TIMOTHEE CHALAMET ';What had happened to my beautiful boy?

When Groucho Marx was well into his eighties, Charlotte Chandler approached him about writing a profile of him for a magazine.

Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works.

New York Times Bestseller Publishers Weekly Bestseller Los Angeles Times Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller A brilliant, hilarious, and honest essay collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author and YouTube sensation Shane Dawson about how messy life can get when you're growing up but how rewarding it can feel when the clean-up is (pretty much) done.